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Several significant concepts are related to DevOps. Agile, Lean, and ITIL are just those concepts. This section is about Agile and its relevance to DevOps. Patrick Dubois and Andrew Clay Shafer attended the Agile 2008 conference in Toronto. At that conference, Andrew presented a Birds-of-a-Feather session on Agile infrastructure. Patrick was in attendance and listened to the presentation. After they talked, Andrew presented on Agile infrastructure at Velocity Conference the following year. In 2009, Patrick started a conference in his hometown of Ghent, Belgium. He called the meeting DevOps Days, effectively creating the term DevOps and beginning the DevOps movement. DevOps has since caught on in a big way with its history rooted in Agile. You might be familiar with Agile. The manifesto for Agile Software Development was written in 2001 by a group of software developers dissatisfied with the current state of software development. They felt the increasing levels of bureaucracy and process were being layered onto projects in the hopes of better results. The outcome was often the opposite. The previous approach to software development is called waterfall. And that's because it moves software down from stage to stage. First, you get all the requirements wholly done and documented. Then you send the requirements to development, which codes them. Development sends the code to QA, who tests it. QA then sends it over to release engineering.
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In Agile development, the process is purposefully more iterative. Instead of trying to complete each phase upfront, it stresses flexible collaboration between workers and customers around the frequent interim deliverables of working software. This can quickly generate solutions that address customer needs with fewer lingering quality problems. And Agile has proven its benefits. 85% of Agile teams have seen increased productivity and 80% report faster time to market. Critics of Agile think that since it's quicker and more collaborative, it must be sloppy and random. Agile teams also report better delivery predictability in 81% of cases and enhanced software quality in 79% cases. Learning about Agile is a significant endeavor. The library has many courses that can help you learn more about Agile. However, if you've read the principles in the Agile Manifesto, you'll see what's missing; any mention of operation. Agile talks about working software, but it wasn't customary to bring system administrators into the product team. Also, the manifesto doesn't mention the last part of the software delivery pipeline, where infrastructure's built and the apps are deployed and maintained in production. In the beginning, Agile was seen as a threat by the infrastructure side of the house in IT organizations. Many IT professionals had to be convinced that it wasn't crazy by development managers. Most experts that have moved to DevOps report they would never go back. So, is DevOps the same thing as Agile? No, you can practice DevOps without Agile and vice versa, but it can and probably should be implemented as an Agile extension since DevOps has such strong roots in Agile. When I was asked to write a DevOps manifesto, after consideration, I decided that very slight edits of the Agile Manifesto captured the heart of it. Replaced software with systems and added operations to the list of stakeholders. And the result is a solid foundation to guide your DevOps journey. DevOps isn't just an outgrowth of Agile. It owes a lot to lean software.
Lean is a systematic process for stopping waste and was created in the manufacturing world by W. Edwards Deming and Taiichi Ohno's Toyota Production System. It revolutionized the Japanese industrial economy after World War II and later returned to the United States. The book, "Lean Software Development An Agile Toolkit," adapted these lean techniques to software development. They identified seven principles of lean that apply to the software. Like the just-in-time tenet of lean manufacturing and aligned with the agile idea of being flexible, you try to move fast but delay decisions in enhanced feedback loops and group context. Building integrity will inform the approaches to continue this integration and testing.
The basic philosophy of lean is about identifying which actions you and your organization perform that add value to the product or service you produce and which do not. Activities that don't add value are called waste. Lean recognizes three significant types of waste, and they all have Japanese names: muda, muri, and mura. Muri is the primary form of waste, and it comes in two types: type one, which is technically waste but necessary for some reason, like compliance, and type two, which is just plain wasteful. The Poppendiecks also defined seven primary wastes that are endemic in software development. This includes bugs and delays, but it also includes spending effort on features that aren't needed. Toyota didn't take long to adapt the lean to product development. A recent popular adaptation of that is found in Eric Ries's book "Lean Startup." In the book, he proposes the build-measure-learn loop as a variation of the usual Kaizen plan-do-check-act cycle. You focus on delivering the minimum viable product to customers, get their feedback, and iterate from there instead of trying to analyze what the perfect product would have been upfront. There are a variety of techniques that go along with lean.
Kaizen is one, and another is value-stream mapping, where you analyze the entire pathway of value creation and understand what exact value is added where, how long it takes, and where waste resides in that pathway. In lean product development, that value stream is referred to as concept to cash, the entire path from the idea to its realization, including all the production and distribution required to get it to customers. DevOps was only indirectly influenced by lean when it started, but it didn't take long for the ideas and their relevance to what DevOps was trying to accomplish to be discovered. Jez Humble, author of "Continuous Delivery," proposed modifying the CAMS set of DevOps principles to CALMS to include lean, and John Willis largely agreed with him. "The Goal," "Lean Software Development," "Lean Startup," and "Lean Enterprise" are four good starter books that can teach you the most about lean. Lean has become essential to DevOps, especially in successful DevOps implementations. The Puppet Labs State of DevOps Report identifies lean management as one of the two important practices that contribute most to organizational success.
The Information Technology Infrastructure Library is a set of detailed practices for IT activities such as IT service management and IT asset management that focus on aligning IT services with the needs of the business. DevOps stands on the shoulders of giants. And there are a lot of concepts from the various ITSM and SDLC frameworks and maturity models that are worth learning. Teams should be organized around the standard ITIL processes, with sections for change management, supplier management, incident management, etc. But when you implement these processes, you want to use a lean and agile mindset and need to craft them in a way that's people first, and that doesn't introduce waste or bottlenecks, into the value stream, in the name of a standard or best practices.
IT service management is a realization that service delivery is an integral part of the overall software development life cycle. Engineers should properly manage it from design, development, deployment, and maintenance to retirement. In the past, the software development life cycles focused on code writing and tended to stop at handoff, or if they mentioned deployment and maintenance, they went into very little detail on them. In this way, ITSM is one of DevOps' ancestors. ITIL was the first ITSM framework. It launched the idea of ITSM. So many folks still speak about them as if they're the same thing, even though other ITSM frameworks, like COBIT, have emerged since. ITIL is a UK government standard that grew out of the Thatcherism of the 1980s as the previously organically managed IT assets.
The UK government didn't have a lot of alignment and standards. And so, their central IT division published guidelines on managing services in the late eighties and early nineties. The UK's central IT group did this first version of ITIL so well that it piqued interest outside the UK government. In 2001, ITIL v2 was published with the explicit intent of being used by others. V3 was published in 2007 and updated in 2011. It uses a process model-based view of controlling and managing services. It can be said to inherit from Deming's plan due check act cycle. ITIL recognizes four primary phases of the service lifestyle. Service strategy, design, transition, and operation. It has guidance for every kind of IT process you've ever heard of, from incident management to portfolio management, to capacity management to serve catalogs. At the same time, all of the high-level principles of ITIL make sense. It's designed to be a reasonably prescriptive and top-down framework. While it's not technically against ITIL to do agile development or perform continuous integration and deployment or other such practices, honestly, much of the culture, advice, and consultancy around ITIL assumes a waterfall push-driven model of the world. But it certainly doesn't have to be that way.
Gene Kim, the author of the "Phoenix Project" and the "DevOps Cookbook" and probably the most avid DevOps evangelist today, founded the IT Process Institute, a nonprofit dedicated to studying IT processes and analyzing best practices around IT performance. In 1999, Kim and Kevin Behr and George Spafford published a slim hundred-page book, "The Visible Ops Handbook, Implementing ITIL in Four Practical and Auditable Steps," in 2004. It describes not only the core parts of ITIL that correlate to an IT organization's success but puts forward a roadmap to implement them in a lightweight manner. "Visible Ops" spread slowly as a cult classic IT book originally. The book's content was great, but the implications of the book were also genuinely electric. The idea is that you could have well-defined control processes that are compliant and auditable. Still, they could be light and agile, opposite most ITIL implementations people had experienced. So, learn from ITIL and its brethren, but think twice before implementing a specific reference process. Instead, consider the process's goal and analyze how you would accomplish that in a lean DevOps manner. From CI to the chaos monkey, many DevOps are about taking an alternate path to the intended goal and finding out it's better than the way established IT wisdom might tell you to take.
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The Republican National Committee, for their part, used news for the forum to mock Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass. over the controversy relating to her Native American ancestry, emailing this NBC News story to reporters to ask if Warren will "attend and share her experiences?" Warren has said she does not identify as a woman of color.
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'The Romanoffs' is aesthetically pleasing but otherwise unsatisfying
Sara Schlecht | Friday, October 26, 2018
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Three years after the critically acclaimed "Mad Men" ended, Matthew Weiner — the show's creator — has returned with "The Romanoffs." In this new project, an anthology series, each episode features a different cast and a seemingly unrelated story, with the exception that some of the characters believe themselves to be descendants of the Russian House of Romanov, about whom little is widely known other than their execution at the hands of Bolsheviks in 1918.
"The Romanoffs" is not a period drama that provides interesting history — or even creative speculation — as to what happened following this massacre. Beyond the title sequence, very little of the show demonstrates that this event is even relevant to whatever the given story is. Instead, each episode — at least the first three of which run about 90 minutes — is merely a glimpse into the modern life of these pretty ordinary, albeit privileged, people. I'm not entirely convinced "The Romanoffs" is about anything else.
"The Violet Hour," the first episode, stars Aaron Eckhart as the nephew of a wealthy, racist old woman who struggles to accept that her new caregiver is a Muslim. Set in Paris, much of this episode is in French and subtitled. The sets are beautiful, the scenery and French language contribute to the exquisiteness of the show. A mention of a Faberge egg is the most significant reference to the illustrious Romanovs. The stars almost deliver convincing performances, but the problematic nature of some of the dialogue makes that somehow questionable. Offensive words toward minorities and the less-than-wealthy plague this story to the point that it's hard to tell if the writers wanted all of the characters to be abhorrent or are blind to propriety. Given the allegations of sexual harassment against Weiner, either is possible.
The second episode "The Royal We," transports viewers to a suburban America where Corey Stoll and Kerry Bishé play a couple with marital struggles. One of them embarks on a cruise for descendants of the Romanovs and makes the history more present in this installment, and a few witty quips about the different spellings of the name work their way into conversation. With numerous people on the cruise who believe themselves connected to the royals, a caricature of Russian culture — complete with costumes and shattering shot glasses once they've been emptied of vodka — occurs.
The third episode, "The House of Special Purpose," is composed primarily of meta-moments in which a mini-series called "The Romanovs" is being filmed. Christina Hendricks — formerly of "Mad Men" — plays the female lead of this drama, which is almost the period piece I wanted "The Romanoffs" to be. Simultaneously suspenseful and thoroughly confusing, this episode offers the most in terms of relevance to the House of Romanov. As a minor character puts it, "Everyone says they're related [to the Romanovs], but no one really is."
With episodes as long as movies, "The Romanoffs" tries to do too much. There might be some subtle wisdom in the unlikable characters who have to struggle through the human experience, even if their ancestors were royal, but there's a plethora of unnecessary drama. The effect is one of watching a compelling film but feeling unsatisfied in the end. So far, each installment has ended with a shock factor that has little hope of being mentioned again because the stories — up to this point — have almost nothing to do with each other.
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Winston Churchill Autograph Letter Signed. Signed: Winston S. Churchill, four pages, 5" x 8", London, March 15, 1905. Wr...
Winston Churchill Autograph Letter Signed. Signed: Winston S. Churchill, four pages, 5" x 8", London, March 15, 1905. Written to journalist Moberly Bell, commenting on the possibility of upcoming elections, and to whom most of the Irish members will owe their allegiance. He also says he is not planning to change parties again, since that has never proved successful in the past. Churchill writes: "...'The vicissitudes of politics are inexhaustible'. But people who quarrel with their own original party very rarely return; & I am not ambitious to be distinguished in that respect. The possibilities of the general election are I think more hopeful than you allow. The Irish 82 - is not now & will not be afterwards a united 82. There are I think nearly 20 now who are independent of Mr. Redwood's control. The Unionists who return to the H. of C. will include at least 12 who will be Chamberlain's personal opponents. As to the percentage of gain - after Brighton everything is possible - but with the deductions I have made a 40% gain would secure a tolerable working majority. I think with you that it is v. possible that alterations may be made in the ministry during its early years. The great age of those who will be prominent in it, seems to render such alterations inevitable. But I do not anticipate any coalition. The hour for that has gone by. You may be sure that no Liberal Ministry will hold office for one unnecessary hour without a general election. They would not be such fools at any rate as that. Are you quite sure nothing will happen till 1906? I wish I knew for certain, for I should like to publish my father's life in Septb. I will keep your letter."
An important letter. Churchill had changed over to the Liberal party the previous year, and never indeed changed back again to the conservatives. In December 1905, Balfour, the Prime Minister, resigned, and in the general election of 1906 the liberals under Campbell-Bannerman did indeed win decisively, and Churchill began his long career in the top echelons of government as Under Secretary for the Colonies. The Irish situation then as now was a thorn in England's side. John Edward Redmond was the leader of the Irish politicians, but while for home rule etc, was not a radical. He opposed the Sinn Fein and other extremist groups, but was finally forced from power by extreme nationalists just before his death in 1918. A fascinating letter from the beginnings of Churchill's distinguished political career, showing his grasp of the political situation even then. In very fine condition; usual folds are present; very clean and crisp.
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Understanding your city by understanding its flow: towards Participatory Urban Metabolism Information Systems
Everything is connected.
As part of my work with the Ecocitizen World Map project (EWM) I'm currently learning about Urban Metabolism Information Systems (UMIS), a whole systems analysis that measures everything flowing into and out of a city over time and space. The UMIS methodology was developed by Dr. Sebastian Moffatt and proposes a standardized "source to sink" framework to better understand and analyze urban systems as they process through the built environment. For example, here's a close-up of just one segment of the City of Vancouver, BC's water flow, showing how water is used and where it goes after that.
In fact, with the help of intrepid citizen activists and students in our pilot cities of Cairo and Casablanca we are taking it even further: turning the tool from the inside out and from the bottom up, we are testing out Participatory Urban Metabolism Information Systems, a method designed to empower people on the ground to map out their own neighborhoods and become participants in transforming their communities into more resilient, equitable, and ecologically healthy settlements.
Community activists and students at Mundiapolis University in Casablanca getting ready to map out the neighborhood of Roches Noires.
Why is this important? Well, like a human body a city is a living, ever-evolving organism, and in order to have it operate at a healthy level and in sync with its environment you have to know exactly what flows into it, how those things are used, and where they go after the body no longer needs them. Another familiar analogy to think of is a Life Cycle Analysis (LCA), the well established method to assess environmental impacts associated with all the stages of a product's life, from cradle to grave. But LCAs only work for products, and cities and neighborhoods aren't products — they are situated in one place, they are complex, ever-changing physical and cultural ecosystems, and they have no lifetime. Cities are eternal.
Cities are also the largest things that humans build, and with the number of cities of 750,000+ inhabitants quadrupling over the last 50 years and 70 percent of the world's population projected to live in urban areas by 2050, the quest to figure out how our urban environments could operate within the earth's carrying capacity ranks as one of the most viable pursuits anyone concerned about climate change, resource depletion, loss of biodiversity, and the human struggles associated with it could undertake. To put it simply, if we don't understand our cities' organisms, we will never be able to have them function in balance with the larger natural organisms within which they reside.
The Urban Metabolism
Urban metabolism as a concept is not entirely new. In fact, back in the 19th century, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels recognized that human activity alters the biophysical processes by analyzing the dynamic internal relationships between humans and nature. Unfortunately, most of the intellectual heavyweights since then have been busy thinking about economy in terms of how quickly and efficiently we can extract, produce, consume, and trash the planet's natural treasures without regard to the shortsightedness of such an approach.
It wasn't until over a hundred years later that a more holistic assessment of a city's anatomy was formally developed for the first time. In a 2007 paper entitled "The Changing Metabolism of Cities," Christopher Kennedy and a team of civil engineers from the University of Toronto defined urban metabolism as "the sum total of the technical and socio-economic process that occur in cities, resulting in growth, production of energy and elimination of waste."
However, up until very recently this was mostly a theoretical exercise, albeit an important one. It's a big step for the western industrial mindset used to externalizing (i.e. ignoring) any costs outside of narrow short-term benefits within a limited area and for a very targeted group of recipients to come to a whole systems understanding of the world in which everything is interdependent and nothing ever goes "away." To be sure, the reality of dwindling fossil fuels and melting ice caps is no longer affording us the luxury of one-dimensional thinking if we're planning on sticking around for a while.
Whatever the motivation, the benefits of treating urban environments in such holistic fashion are similar in nature to being tuned in to the rhythm of our bodies — the more we know about the effects of different components like diet, exercise, sleep, or laughter on our physical and emotional well being, the more likely we are to live balanced and healthy lives. Figuring out the intricacies of our bodies is tricky enough, but how do we analyze something as complex as a modern industrial city, with all its physical and cultural microcosms, its ever-shifting flows of people, ideas, buildings, and materials?
Well, if we had a platform that could organize and visualize the data of the various in- and outputs of a city — food, water, energy, transportation, etc — and the conversions that happen between, you'd get an honest picture of where in the system most of the waste, pollution, and externalizations occur and which adjustments or loops might produce a more streamlined, efficient, and ecologically healthy process.
Urban Metabolism Information Systems (UMIS)
Sebastian has been thinking about how to create this kind of whole systems analysis that can draw a picture of where everything is coming from and where it's going to for a while. The first planner in modern times to develop long-term sustainability plans for cities that integrate resiliency as a key theme, he has taken the urban metabolism field to a new level by creating the tools to estimate the flows of energy, water and materials through cities and illustrate them in a simple and standardized way.
The key to this tracking and visualization of the material flow that constitutes an urban metabolism are meta diagrams. Based on a Sankey diagram, a flow diagram named after an Irish Captain who came up with it in 1898, meta diagrams put visual emphasis on the major transfers or flows within a system, with the width of the arrows shown proportionally to the flow quantity. They are most commonly used to visualize the energy or material flow accounts on a regional or national level (the US Energy Information Agency uses them for their annual report), but they can be used any time you have a number of different sources, distributions, and outputs.
For example, here's a simple and fun meta diagram that illustrates Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music's recital distribution diagram from January to April 2014.
From Steve Wexler's blog 'Data Revelations' on Sankey diagrams: Music Major, Data Miner.
The shades of brown describe the various types of recitals as the source (hover at this link to see weddings, church services, school recitals, funerals, etc), the composers as the outcome, and the thin and thick waves between them as the distribution. Turns out they played Bach at weddings, concerts and funerals, but not at church services and recitals.
Not surprisingly, it gets more complex than that. Sebastian delved into the development of what he calls MetaFlow diagrams for entire urban systems as part of the Eco2 Cities: Ecological Cities as Economic Cities project (published in 2010), an analytical and operational framework that offers strategic guidance to cities on sustainable and integrated urban development. Seeking to offer ground-level perspective, they conducted case-studies in cities across Asia that would help to showcase the cities' current flow and offer insights on how these flows could be better looped in order to avoid so much waste and leakage.
A MetaFlow diagram of the energy system of Jinze, Shanghai, for example, shows the discrepancy between the current system (left) and a scenario for an advanced system (right).
Source: Author elaboration (Sebastian Moffatt) with approximate data provided by Professor Jinsheng Li, Tongii University, Shanghai.
In the current system, energy pretty much goes straight from source to consumption to sink, with very little capturing, reuse, or conservation happening in between. It's a bit like heating your house with all the windows open — it may achieve the goal of keeping you warm, but the price in energy, pollution, and money to do so is huge. On the other hand, the MetaFlow diagram on the right with all the cascading lines provides a scenario for an advanced system that helps reduce emissions and costs and increases local jobs and energy security. In this example, a local electricity generation facility is powered by liquified natural gas and provides a majority of the electricity needs as well as hot and cool water for industry.
If you think of it like an onion, with things going in at the top and coming out at the bottom, then the fatter and more twirly the middle the more efficiently a city is using its resources and the closer to being resilient and ecologically balanced it is getting. To put it in "body language" terms, the more diversified, fresh, and nutritious your diet, the smaller the portions you need, the better you feel, the healthier your soils, and the less fossil fuels needed to produce your food.
Recently, one of Sebastian's colleagues, Director Dr. Philip Mansfield of Graphical Memes did a number of MetaFlow diagrams for the City of Vancouver B.C., with data provided from Jennie Moore, the Director of Sustainable Development and Environmental Stewardship at BCIT. The energy diagram shows a very typical modern centralized system, with small amounts of locally sourced electricity, not much energy diversity, and minimal cascading (very little efficiency, recycling, or dual use). Basically, most of Vancouver's energy comes from non-renewable sources (except hydro) and ends up in the air after being used for a single purpose at a single time.
Speaking of body language, here's a MetaFlow diagram for food, which I think is worth zooming in a bit.
As you can see, there's a lot more cascading at the top, which is partly because there are more diverse food-types than energy-types, with local farms supplying a visible share of different foods. Fruits and veggies are a substantial amount of the total organic material flow. On the other end though you can see how the sinks are much less textured, with most of Vancouver's food waste (which typically represents about 50% of the entire waste stream) going to transfer stations and incinerators, from where it's going to landfill or is released into the air. Many strategies could be considered for looping and cascading these flows, that is, to create a more connected food web within the city. For example, if food waste is composted as soil, the soil can be used locally for farming or landscaping and the city has less need for hauling material by truck and acquiring land for landfill.
As Sebastian likes to point out, these diagrams are worth a thousand pie charts. But this is not all of it. What if you could drill deeper into the metabolism of a city by looking at each neighborhood, everything it needs to stay alive, and all it disposes? The data you get from official sources usually is very static and general. A utility company can only tell you how many gallons of water the entire city consumes per year, but it doesn't tell you how much of it goes to toilets, laundry, or showers, or how usage varies from neighborhood to neighborhood. This makes it hard to adopt relevant conservation or catchment strategies.
This is where the on-the-ground crowd-mapping tools and initiatives of the Ecocitizen World Map Project come in.
Participatory Urban Metabolism Information Systems (PUMIS)
Mundiapolis University students and community members on their way to surveying residents of Casablanca's Roches Noires neighborhood.
The premise of the Ecocitizen World Map Project is that if we all take coordinated actions towards a shared vision of a sustainable and equitable urban environment we can address even the most serious problems facing the planet and its inhabitants. As citizens of living urban organisms it's only logical that we would be active participants in the maintenance and evolution of the intricate webs that sustain us, and we each bring a unique set of knowledge and sensitivity to our local physical and cultural micro-organisms.
The fact that currently the MetaFlow diagrams of most cities in the world would look similar to Vancouver's — with very unbending and centralized flows that leave little room for localized and adaptable ways to make better use of both natural and human resources — shows that there's a real need for tools that enable communities to better understand their own neighborhoods and identify the areas where more looping and cascading could be applied as systems become more ecological. If we're serious about sustainability, we have to do an honest audit of our cities from the inside out instead of the current superficial top-down assessments that all too often falsely proclaim cities with gigantic ecological footprints to be sustainable.
Consequently, if we want to find out how the resources and materials that flow through an urban ecosystem are being used and distributed within that ecosystem, we have to survey residents about how they're using those resources. And that's exactly what we did in our pilot cities Cairo and Casablanca.
Conducting citizen surveys and parcel audits in Cairo's Imbaba neighborhood.
Going into neighborhoods and getting all kinds of local information is not only great because you get a lot of previously unknown data, but it makes residents curious about things they may not have thought of before, giving them incentive to become involved in finding solutions to problems that may exist. For example, in Casablanca, water samples that participants in our "bootcamps" took in the Roches Noires neighborhood turned out to be not as clean as the city claims, which led to further questions about the water cycle and a dialog between residents and the utility company.
Ecocitizens testing water from Roches Noires, Casablanca.
Water is a very precious and expensive resource in communities like Roches Noires and Imbaba, so finding out where waste occurs and how you could loop more gray water, for example, is really meaningful. Organizing the data from the surveys into an easily understandable format is key. This is where grassroots citizen participation meets MetaFlow.
Let's look at the water that flows through the building at 4 Sharaf Allet in Imbaba and its corresponding diagram that you can find on the interactive ecocitizen map on our Cairo pilot page.
After learning to use the UMIS data templates, the citizen surveyors can customize the templates according to archetypes that represent parcels with similar structures and characteristics. This way a lot of the values that may be the same in similar structures can be set as default. For example, the template for a UMIS water survey may look something like this.
Once you've completed the survey you can create a MetaFlow diagram for just that parcel as it relates to the city's sources, conversions, and sinks. It's pretty cool to see it in detail.
You can see that all the water used for hygiene (shower/bath) comprises just a very small part of overall water use, but is looped back into the toilets through an onsite greywater system. At the same time, water from the kitchen which comprises the lion's share of water use at 4 Sharaf Allet is for the most part going straight to the city's wastewater treatment on its way to the ocean. However, a small amount is reclaimed and goes to a neighborhood water facility. Residents may ask themselves whether it would be possible to recycle more of the water that flows through their kitchens.
This, of course, is very specific data, but analyzing these localized metabolisms leads to the patterns and trends necessary to make specific adjustments on a larger scale. Just as in any sampling or polling, you have to survey just enough people or units to get a meaningful representation of a larger population or neighborhood.
In the case of the UMIS system, it is set up with a structure designed to permit easy aggregation of the parcel-scale urban metabolisms. Once separated according to archetype, the parcels can be averaged, multiplied by the population they represent, and then summed with other archetypes. In other words, the audited parcels can be used to generate accurate and precise estimates of all the systemic flows for different combinations of parcels, or for the neighborhood as a whole.
Once we get these kinds of citizen-generated reports based on real-life conditions and structured around a holistic framework, the patterns that emerge allow for both residents and planners to ask the kind of questions that can lead to both local and regional ecological improvements. What could we do for people to get by on rainwater? How could the city avoid leakage in their water and energy systems?. How do we stay within the carrying capacity?
Or as Sebastian likes to say, "we can use these diagrams to tell the story of where we want to go and why!"
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Come Together: DISA, GSA Streamline $5B Commercial SATCOM Procurement
Feb 21, 2010 18:26 UTC
A 2004 study by the Satellite Industry Association found that 80% of all US military satellite communication during the 2003 US invasion of Iraq was carried on commercial satellites. Then-US assistant secretary of defense for networks and information integration, John P. Stenbit, estimated that the US military purchased between $200 million and $300 million worth of commercial satellite services during the first year of the war.
Commercial satellite providers remain a mainstay of the US Department of Defense's satellite communications capability. To streamline the process for the US military and US federal government agencies to lease communications satellite capacity from commercial providers, the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) and the General Services Administration (GSA) undertook an effort in 2009 to combine the commercial satellite communications (COMSATCOM) service contracts for the US military and US civilan government agencies into a 10-year, $5 billion contract vehicle…
General Dynamics to Supply 103 Stryker Vehicles
M1130 Stryker MC
GM General Dynamics Land Systems Defense Group LLC in Sterling Heights, MI received a $176.2 million firm-fixed-price contract for 103 Stryker vehicles.
Stryker is a family of 8×8 wheeled armored combat vehicles that can travel at speeds of 60 mph on highways, with a range of 312 miles. Stryker operates with an integrated armor package that provides protection against improvised explosive devices, rocket propelled grenades, and a number of infantry weapons…
Jordan Submits $220M Weapons Wish List to USA
M142 HIMARS
HIMARS launcher order goes through. (Feb 19/10)
In September 2009, long-time US Middle East ally Jordan submitted an impressive wish list of weapons for its armed forces to the US Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA). The list includes rocket launchers, radios, and Humvees.
DSCA said that weapons Jordan wants to buy will provide its armed forces with a long-range precision artillery support capability that will significantly improve US-Jordan interoperability and provide for the defense of vital installations. What exactly is Jordan looking for?
Rapid Fire 2010-02-19: BAE 2009 Losses
BAE Systems posts $105 million net loss for 2009 as a result of regulatory penalties, lost US DoD business.
Were fire support restrictions responsible for the USMC/ANA casualties at Ganjal? NY Times says yes. Official report says the officers who thought so may have been incorrect.
US DoD's top weapons buyer says that the pace of cutting costly weapons programs should slow.
US Army's HR Support: $1.3B to 12 Firms for Studies & Analysis
US Army HR training
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With over a half million US soldiers in uniform, the US Army has the formidable task of providing human resources (HR) services to all of them. To help with this massive HR requirement, the Army uses contractors.
The primary office that handles HR outsourcing is the Army's HRsolutions Program Office launched in 2004. HRsolutions manages 4 competitively awarded HR contracts in the areas of studies and analysis, recruitment and retention, personnel services and support, and management and administrative support.
HRsolutions recently awarded 12 multiple-award indefinite-delivery/ indefinite-quantity contracts for the HR studies and analysis program, worth up to $1.3 billion in total, for the period 2010-2015. The office expects to award HR contracts in the other areas in the next few months.
SELEX Prototyping A New AESA Radar for the UK
RAF Eurofighter
In February 2009, SELEX Galileo announced a GBP 19 million contract from the UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) to develop and produce an initial Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) Radar prototype. After rigorous ground and compact antenna test range testing, the radar is planned to fly on a Royal Air Force Typhoon aircraft in the UK.
With the EUR 9 billion multinational Tranche 3A purchase, total orders for the Eurofighter reached 559 machines. Even if Tranche 3B never materializes and exports stall, those fighters represent a large investment that will attract upgrades over their lifetimes. Once of the most important upgrades involves replacing the Euroradar consortium's ECR-90 mechanically-scanned array with a modern AESA radar that offers better resolution, multitasking, upgradeability, and reliability. Euroradar's CAESAR AESA has already participated in flight trials on the Typhoon, but the UK MoD seems to have something else in mind…
RAPVLA: Tracking Stealth Submarines in Deep Water
Submarines with improving stealth and attack capability – particularly modern diesel attack submarines – are proliferating worldwide. Locating these relatively inexpensive but extremely quiet boats presents a challenge to the US Navy, then Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Michael Mullen warned Congress in 2007 testimony [pdf].
To counter this threat, the Navy is investigating a distributed and netted approach to anti-submarine warfare (ASW). Among the ASW programs the Navy is considering is the Reliable Acoustic Path Vertical Line Array (RAPVLA). The RAPVLA is a deep water, bottom-mounted, high-grain sensor system that can automatically detect, classify, localize, track and report contacts of interest, such as stealth submarines.
Lockheed Martin recently received a $7 million order for applied research in support of the RAPVLA program…
Rapid Fire: 2010-02-18
US DoD to require vendors to meet tougher cybersecurity standards.
Cyberattack simulation highlights infrastructure, leadership gaps. What keeps cybersecurity specialists up at night?
Pentagon cites over 100 cyber breaches at US defense contractors and agencies.
Pwnage: US Army calls in its best VBS2 gamers for a conference.
Lockheed Martin may battle Babcock to acquire British defense firm VT Group.
UK begins using new "Python" for mine clearance in Afghanistan, showcases CDE research projects.
F-35 Joint Strike Fighter's development schedule to be delayed a year.
US Army is developing a signal-processing interface to combine outputs from different radar systems.
Navistar's $750+ million contract to provide 1,050 more MaxxPro Dash vehicles is expected to restore 400 jobs to the company's West Point, MS facility, following multiple layoffs in 2009 that had cut staffing to 120.
IT Enables US Army Doctors to Retrieve Vital Records, Perform Surgery
Telesurgery using MC4
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Using paper medical records in military hospitals and mobile medical units can be impractical at best. Doctors and nurses have to flip through paper-based charts to review patient histories in time-pressure situations that often require immediate action.
Using the US Army's electronic medical record system called Medical Communications for Combat Casualty Care (MC4), US military doctors, medics, and nurses record and retrieve medical information from laptops. Rather than searching through reams of paper records, Army medical personnel can quickly punch in a patient's name and have all of the relevant medical history at their fingertips.
Recently, an Army surgeon in Iraq has been able to use the MC4 system not just for record keeping but to perform surgery, which involved transmitting images back to specialists in the United States who assisted the surgeon.
To support the MC4 system, General Dynamics Information Technology recently received a 5-year task order, worth up to $154 million if all options are exercised…
You Gotta Have HART: Northrop Grumman Develops ISR Aircraft Control System
HART system diagram
The US Defense Advanced Research Project Agency is working with the US Air Force Research Lab and Northrop Grumman to develop a web-based system to autonomously control manned and unmanned reconnaissance aircraft.
Getting real-time information in an urban firefight can mean the difference between life and death, success and failure. The Heterogeneous Airborne Reconnaissance Team (HART) program is developing IT capabilities to feed ISR aircraft data directly to the soldiers in the field.
On Feb 17/10, Northrop Grumman received a $46.2 million contract under the HART program to develop technologies enabling command and control of unmanned aircraft for the conduct of urban operations.


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Who's who on the FOMC
June 29, 1999: 1:38 p.m. ET
Greenspan's supporting cast helps make interest rate decisions
NEW YORK (CNNfn) - While Alan Greenspan is a well-recognized name, the Federal Reserve chairman has an impressive, if relatively unsung, supporting cast when the time comes to set U.S. interest rate policy.
It is the Federal Open Market Committee, which sets short-term monetary policy for the country's central bank based on a variety of domestic and international economic factors.
The committee is allowed 12 members -- including seven members of the Fed's Board of Governors; the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York; and four rotating seats consisting of the presidents of the eleven other Reserve Banks.
However, with the June 3 resignation of Fed Vice Chairman Alice M. Rivlin, the committee has been whittled down to 10 members for the time being. Board governor Alice Phillips resigned last June and was never replaced by President Clinton, and Rivlin said she wouldn't participate in any vote on interest rates before she officially leaves the Fed in July.
Following are highlights of the current board members' careers.
Greenspan
Alan Greenspan, the FOMC chairman, is serving his third four-year term as chairman of the board of governors of the Federal Reserve System. He has been appointed by Presidents Reagan, Bush and Clinton.
Before joining the Fed in 1987, Greenspan was chairman and president of the New York-based economic consulting firm Townsend-Greenspan & Co. Inc. for 30 years from 1954 to 1987. In the middle of that stretch, from 1974 to 1977, Greenspan served as chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Ford, and from 1981 to 1983 as chairman of the National Commission on Social Security Reform.
Greenspan is famous for his cautious -- if opaque -- public statements about monetary policy. Among his most recognized statements was his 1996 remark that U.S. stock markets were experiencing "irrational exuberance."
William J. McDonough, vice chairman of the FOMC, has been president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York since 1993, a year after first joining the bank and serving as its executive vice president, as well as manager of open market operations at the FOMC.
Prior to his work at the Fed, McDonough served as vice chairman of the board of First Chicago Corp., where he worked for 22 years in various executive positions, including chief financial officer and as a director of its bank holding company from 1986 until 1989.
Boehne
Edward G. Boehne, president of the Philadelphia Fed since 1981, has spent his entire career with that body. Joining the Fed in 1968 as an economist, Boehne served in a variety of positions, including vice president, director of research and senior vice president.
Furguson
Roger W. Ferguson Jr., a Federal Reserve governor since 1997, was a partner at the international management consulting firm McKinsey & Co. Inc. There he managed studies for financial institutions for 13 years and served as director of the firm's research and information systems, managing its investments in knowledge management technologies. Prior to that, Ferguson was a lawyer at the firm Davis Polk & Wardwell, where his casework included syndicated loans, public offerings and mergers and acquisitions.
Gramlich
Before joining the Federal Reserve Board of Governors in 1997, Edward M. Gramlich served for three years as the dean of the School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan, where he had been a professor of economics and public policy since 1976. During his academic tenure, Gramlich acquired extensive governmental experience through a variety of appointments, including chairman of the Quadrennial Advisory Council on Social Security, acting director of the Congressional Budget Office and director of policy research at the Office of Economic Opportunity.
Edward W. Kelley Jr., has served as a Federal Reserve governor since 1987. From 1959 to 1981, he served as president and CEO of Kelley Industries Inc., a Houston-based holding company with subsidiaries in manufacturing, distribution and business services. A founding director of three banks in the Houston area, Kelley also became board chairman of Investment Advisors Inc. in the 1980s.
McTeer
Dallas Federal Reserve Bank President Robert D. McTeer took office in 1991. He began his career at the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond in 1968 as an economist in the research department. In 1980, McTeer became senior vice president in charge of the Baltimore branch of the Richmond Reserve Bank, where he served until joining the Dallas Fed.
Widely recognized as one of the nation's leading economic forecasters, Laurence H. Meyer joined the Federal Reserve board in 1996, having once served as an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. In 1982, he co-founded Laurence H. Meyer and Associates, a St. Louis-based economic consulting firm, where he served as president until being named to the Fed. He also taught economics for 27 years at Washington University, where for a time he chaired the economics department.
Chicago Federal Reserve President Michael H. Moskow took office in 1994, a veteran of the educational, governmental and corporate worlds. Moskow began his career as a professor of economics, labor relations and management at three colleges in Pennsylvania. For eight years after that, he served in several high positions in the federal government, such as the Council of Economic Advisers, the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Labor Department.
In 1977, he took to business, working for a variety of firms in the Chicago area. President Bush in 1991 named Moskow as deputy U.S. trade representative. Two years later, Moskow returned to the teaching world, at the J. L. Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank President Gary H. Stern took office in 1985, taking the helm of that regional Fed just three years after joining its staff. In 1982, Stern joined the Minneapolis Fed as senior vice president and director of research. Prior to that, he was a partner in a New York-based economic consulting firm. He also served on faculties of Columbia University, Washington University and New York University.
There are also four alternate members, made up of the remaining Federal Reserve Bank presidents, but those seats hold no voting powers on official board matters unless one of the voting presidents cannot attend.
Currently, the four alternate board members are J. Alfred Broaddus, president of the Fed bank in Richmond, Jack Guynn, president of the Atlanta bank, Jerry L. Jordon, president of the Cleveland bank, and Robert T. Perry, president of the San Francisco bank.
Economists mull Fed move - June 29, 1999
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Pásztorokul és tanítókul: 2007. október 27.
A quite busy week is over.
Monday I went to Oradea where I taught Old Testament Theology and Practical Liturgy at Emanuel University. I slept there for overnight and came home late Tuesday.
Wednesday afternoon we had three services with the guets from "The Cleaford Christian Fund" from England, visiting Sangeorgiu de Padure, Fantanele and Balauseri. We stopped in Viforoasa too, to see the rebuilt and renovated houses.
Thursday morning we had a visit to Iernut also, where Ottó Szűcs moved with his family (his wife, Melinda, and their son, Előd). Melinda is in her last year at the Medical University. Ottó graduated from the Seminary last year. They didn't have a home where to live, and the Hungarian Baptist Church not only invited them to live there, but also, to be their minister. Ottó is a good misician. The church-members started to renovate the backyard-house (former meeting place), turning it into a home. There is no heating yet! There is no bathroom! So, there is a lot of work, and much need. We would like to finalize this reshaping work before winter (if we will have enough money), and next year we will extend the building with another room (also, if finances will permit). Iernut is at 30 km from Targu Mures, being a centre for the surrounding villages. In some of them we already started some mission work, with more or less results. Please, pray for Ottó and his family!
From Iernut I went to Cluj on Thursday to an official meeting. That was also important. I came home in the evening.
But on Friday I went again to Oradea, and then immediately to Valea lui Mihai and Debrecen, Hungary. From Oradea the vice president for finances, and from Valea lui Mihai the president, general secretary and the local pastor came with me. We had an important meeting with the representatives of the Gipsy Mission Foundation. Some of the Gipsy churches are related with this Foundation, but at the moment being part of our Convention also. We hope, we will see the necessary results of this meeting in the near future. Please pray for those who are working in planting Gipsy (but Hungarian speaking) Baptist Churches in Transylvania!
Tomorrow I will preach at the 1st Romanian Baptist Church in Targu Mures (the pastor is not at home). In the afternoon I will preach in Reghin and at Apalina Gipsies (near Reghin). In all three places Cammid O. Arrendell will be with me, who just finished his teaching at the Seminary.
Tegnap Nagyváradra, onnan pedig Debrecenbe utaztunk a KCA-val való megbeszélésre. Azt még nem tudom, hogy milyen eredménnyel, mert ők ezután hozzák meg döntésüket. Ma reggel hazaindultunk Nagyváradról Cammid Arrendell-lel, aki befejezte tanítását a Teológián. Kolozsváron megnéztük a Teológia számára vásárolt telket, majd az Imaházhoz mentünk. Johannát is felvettük az Egyetemtől, és ebédre értünk haza. Itthon a legjobb. Készülünk a holnapi szolgálatokra: délelőtt a román testvéreknél a Szabadság utcában leszünk (Nicu Stremtan lelkipásztor megkért, hogy helyettesítsem), délután pedig Szászrégenben és Abafáján. Az itthoni szolgálat teljesen a Sándor testvérem feladata lesz, valamint Bonyha és Fintaháza is. Sok áldást a holnapi szolgálatokra!


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Evidence Review - Adult Safeguarding
Date: February 2013
Type: Evidence review
This review was commissioned by Skills for Care's Workforce Innovation Programme which explores how people's care and support needs change and how the workforce has to adapt to meet the challenges that change can present.
The key questions that the evidence review aimed to address with reference to adult safeguarding and the social care workforce were:
What are current reported practices to support workforce intelligence, planning and development?
What works, and what does not work, in current practice to support workforce intelligence, planning and development?
What are the key characteristics of effective practice in workforce intelligence, planning and development?
What are the gaps in the evidence base?
The review followed the Civil Service rapid evidence assessment methodology. A wide range of databases, web-sites and grey literature were searched and screened, using search terms related to adult safeguarding, adult protection and workforce, staff and training.
Overall, much of the evidence on workforce and adult safeguarding is based on a limited number of studies and cases. Much of the work reviewed was of little specific relevance to the social care workforce. Most studies were qualitative, concerned with obtaining views and experiences. Control groups were rarely used for comparison. Much of the grey literature was focused on good practice and guidance. The evidence came mainly from the UK, as the policy and organisational context for overseas studies was so different.
Ten broad themes were identified:
- Policy in practice
- Incidence and prevalence
- Risk factors
- Staff perceptions and understanding
- Effect on staff
- Prevention
- Models of care
- Risk assessment and personalisation
- Deprivation of Liberty safeguards and Mental Capacity Act
- Serious case reviews and lessons learned
The evidence review indicates the need for better staff understanding of what constitutes abuse and how best to respond to it. But there is a serious lack of robust evidence about how best to equip staff with the knowledge and skills required to recognise and respond effectively to abuse in order to safeguard adults at risk, and equally little known about which approaches to prevention and models of care are most effective.
The introduction of personal budgets and personalisation, the Mental Capacity Act, Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards and Lasting Power of Attorney, create new workforce challenges. Serious Case Reviews provide a potentially valuable source of evidence of what does not work. However, analysis has been relatively unsystematic in the absence of a national database.
In conclusion, the evidence review identified a wide range of research studies both quantitative and qualitative but found only a couple of systematic reviews. Nevertheless, it endeavoured to identify a range of relevant evidence about current practice, what works and what are the key characteristics of effective practice, and where the gaps in the evidence base exist in relation to adult safeguarding and the social care workforce.
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South Carolina Legislative Roundup: 2014
Wade S. Kolb III
The South Carolina Generally Assembly ended its 2014 term in early June, having considered a number of proposed bills with environmental implications. In a March 27th blog post, we summarized several key environmental bills then before the House and Senate. Now that the 2014 term has come to a close, the fate of many of these bills has been determined.
Amendments to the Pollution Control Act: In March we reported that a proposed amendment to the Pollution Control Act's Savings Clause provision was in the Senate's Committee on Medical Affairs. The amendment would eliminate the ability of third parties to bring an action under certain limited circumstances to enforce the PCA. Since that time, the Committee has issued its report. On May 20th, a majority of the Committee ruled favorably on the bill. The bill was subsequently sent to the State Senate but not voted on this term. The Senate may return to the bill when it reconvenes for the 2015 term next spring.
Solar Energy: On June 2, 2014, Governor Haley held a ceremonial signing for S. 1189, the S.C. Distributed Energy Resource Program Act, which allows citizens more affordable access to solar energy by permitting them to lease solar panels for their homes or businesses rather than having to pay the higher costs associated with purchasing and paying upfront for installation of the panels. Additionally, the bill ensures that residents who generate solar electricity and sell the energy back to the power grid will receive a fair price.
The legislation represents a compromise between solar energy proponents and utility providers. Governor Haley praised the legislation: "We're celebrating today because this law breaks down barriers to solar energy access, making it easier for individuals and businesses to take advantage of the projects and opportunities that can cut costs and make energy usage more efficient."
Surface Water Withdrawal: Various bills aimed at amending the Surface Water Withdrawal, Permitting, Use and Renewal Act have stalled. H.4794 would have put a moratorium in effect for any future registrations or expansion of existing registrations for surface water withdrawals through 2015. Currently, H. 4794 sits in the Senate Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources. S.970/H.4760, which would require agricultural users to obtain permits when their withdrawals reach certain limits, suffered a similar fate, being referred to committee but receiving no hearings or votes. H.4817 fared likewise.
Funding for the South Carolina Conservation Bank: Funding for the Conservation Bank ended up being capped at last year's authorization level of $9.8 million, a figure lower than some conservation advocates had anticipated.
We blogged earlier this year about several other bills with environmental implications. H.3827, which was designed to expedite environmental permit appeals, failed to pass, though the South Carolina Chamber of Commerce, which supported the bill, has promised to pursue a similar bill in 2015. Last, amendments to the Energy Independence and Sustainable Construction Act were signed into law in early April. For information on these amendments, see here.
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The past three years have marked an evolution for Cobra Golf. From bright colors to bright ideas, they have set out to establish themselves as true competitors in the golf market. This year marks the release of what Cobra considers their most advanced lineup yet – the Bio Cell. Last year there were questions from golfers to Cobra about why they chose not to release the "pro" version of the Amp Cell fairway wood, so this year they decided to bring the people what they were asking for.
Tour proven head design – Compact, pear-shaped head design delivers a lower CG for greater distance. Inspired and designed in collaboration with our COBRA Tour players.
MyFly8 with SmartPad™ technology – Eight adjustable loft settings to maximize distance, manage trajectory, and optimize yardage gaps.
High strength face insert – Forged thin, shallow high strength steel face inserts (Driver like construction) enables more face flex for faster ball speeds, longer distance, and higher trajectory.
For the purpose of this review THP was able to spend time with the 3-4 Bio Cell+ fairway finished in blue with the stock Matrix Red-Tie in Stiff flex.
The new Bio Cell+ fairway is the direct result of interactions between Cobra's R&D and their tour staff with the intent of creating a more compact and traditional shape than that of the standard Bio Cell. All it takes is holding this one in hand and at address to realize that they definitely accomplished their goals. The Bio Cell+ fairway is in its essence a throwback. It has an incredibly compact footprint and shallower face (the 3-4w is 148cc compared to the regular Bio at 181cc) that is intended to make for a club that is playable from the tee and the deck. As far as pure aesthetics it is one of the cleanest overall packages out there in a player's fairway wood.
Offered in a variety of colors (including black, a shrewd move by Cobra) the head's compact size is the star here even with the various colors. The crown features only a Cobra logo as the alignment aid and the light shadowed Bio Cell paint scheme on the rear half of the head. This paint actually shows the exact shape and size of what is going on inside of the head with the utilization of these cells on the overall club design. To round out the package the stock Matrix Red-Tie has been finished in a white pearlescent paint that will match with any color option available.
With the Bio Cell+ fairway there is a full range of loft adjustability thanks to the utilization of Cobra's SmartPad technology and all new MyFly8 adapter. The adapters allow for eight different loft options in both the 3-4w and 5-7w including three draw settings. As with the driver, the removal of the fade settings was due to feedback that Cobra got from their various fitters.
In testing the 3-4w Bio Cell+ was tried on every loft and the SmartPad does exactly what is supposed to by keeping the head at a neutral setup while still allowing visual feedback of loft changes. Each setting had a direct impact on the ball flight, and in the case of the draw setting it did help bring the natural flight that direction. Cobra's MyFly and SmartPad tech is still one of the easiest to use out there, as adjustments are straight forward and the "window" cut into the heel provides visual assurance of the desired setting being selected.
Although the sound/feel is clearly the most subjective, the Bio Cell+ does have some distinct traits in this area. The smaller size and steel face insert are what shines through, as the head possesses a very short and sharp metallic "tink" at impact. The sound however is not in any way hollow, so there is no resonating that leads to an abnormally loud sound and feel. In fact, the ball feels like it jumps off of the face regardless of where across the smaller surface area that impact is made.
The Bio Cell+ fairway features weight repositioned from crown and face thanks to Cobra's utilization of bio mimicry with the actual Bio Cells. The result of this leads to the club having a lower CG, higher overall MOI, and a larger sweet spot than Cobra has previously attained in a fairway wood. The club by its nature will be a lower launching and lower spinning design than the regular Bio Cell, making it the more demanding of Cobra's options this year.
Time spent with the Bio Cell+ showed a significant drop in spin as compared to the Amp Cell, however the pairing of the mid-launch and mid-spin Matrix Red-Tie seemed to maintain a solid level of playability regardless of the loft setting utilized. Clearly the lower the loft (12* for example), the higher swing speed would be needed to properly utilize the club off of the deck, but off of the tee it elevated quite well, which could make for a handy driver alternative for some . In "normal" 3-4w settings (15 degrees and up) the Bio Cell+ showed to do exactly what was intended by Cobra, as turf interaction and elevation off of the deck maintained a piercing ball flight that still provided the ability to hit into greens.
This club was designed with precision and workability in mind and testing certainly showed this as a strong suit of the club. The smaller profile allowed for the ability to turn shots when need be. Additionally, both off the tee and off the deck the overall shot dispersion was surprising for the class of club that this is in. Shots just inside or outside the center of the club face were rewarded with results that were still very playable. While there was distance loss and increased spin, it was manageable. The further out to the extremes the misses got, the more penal the club was, just as should be expected. There is some correction/forgiveness that is packed into the head for sure, but it should be kept in mind that it is still definitely the more demanding of the two offerings from Cobra in the Bio Cell line this year.
The weight distribution changes due to the Bio Cells along with the addition of high strength steel inserts in the face are the key elements when it comes to distance seen with the Bio Cell+ fairway. The reinforced face inserts are supposed to help deliver driver-like ball speeds with more face flex. During review, recorded ball speeds affirmed that this fairway wood is a small package that carries with it some punch. In fact, for this reviewer it was one of the longer fairway woods that has been tested in some time, providing solid distance off the deck and even more off of the tee. This seemingly makes the Bio Cell+ a very interesting club for the player out there with a repeatable swing who can sacrifice some overall forgiveness for the potential distance and versatility gains that it can offer.
The decision to release a fairway wood like the Bio Cell+ to the market is definitely an intriguing one at first take. From a size standpoint it is certainly a departure from the going trend of fairway woods essentially becoming miniature drivers in their size and stature. However, there is a lot packed into such a small package, and those players who are seeking a much more workable option that still offers an impressive amount of distance from all lies should certainly take notice. Time with the Bio Cell+ affirmed that all the R&D that went into this part of the Bio Cell line delivers on much of what it is claimed to do. Although the size and demands of such a club will not be the best for all golfers, it achieves the goal of branching out into demographics of players that previously overlooked their fairway woods.
The Bio Cell+ fairway wood comes in five different colors, has three different no-upcharge shaft options and carries an MSRP of 249.00. More information about this and the rest of Cobra's Bio Cell lineup can be found at www.cobragolf.com.
Great thoughts James. This thing could win beauty pageants all day long. Very solid offering from Cobra this year, really impressed with the direction they're going.
Nice work James. Seems like a really solid offering for those looking for a fairway with a smaller footprint.
Great write up James! I'm all in, you sold me on this one easily. I love the adjustability and functional use of these. Awesome awesome awesome!
Cobra has the colors and performance to match. I do like the option of black for the more traditional metal wood homers. Great work James!
Thriver! I can see this being a pretty useful weapon for some players. Great pics and review James.
Excellent review my friend! This is a fantastic looking offering and I'm glad to see Cobra offering that smaller footprint for consumers.
The 12* sounds so fun to play with but I would lean to a solid 15/16* option as a shorter club off the tee. May need to chop off an inch to make it more hybrid length'ish.
I still want to give this one a fair shot even though I usually play hybrids…the ball speed numbers are impressive, love that misses aren't penalized too much.
I own a Cobra Amp Cell Pro and the idea was to add this + model as well but I am LH.


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Източната порта на Филипопол е сред 3-те открити входно-изходни порти на Античен Пловдив.

През нея се е осъществявала основната връзка между Филипопол и Византион. Предполага се, че е изградена през II век по времето на император Адриан и е основно реконструирана през IV век. Комплексът около портата е открит и разкопан през 1970-те години. Руините ѝ лежат в североизточното подножие на пловдивското Трихълмие.

Местоположение
Източната порта на Филипопол е разположена в североизточното подножие на Трихълмието, в непосредствена близост до архитектурния резерват Старинен Пловдив. Останките от античния паметник са намират до площад "Ал. Малинов" и кръстовището на улиците "Цар Иван Шишман" и "Митрополит Панарет".

Портата

Източната порта на античния Пловдив е имала един централен вход-отвор и два странични входа с по-малки размери. От двете ѝ страни са били построени отбранителни кули, които да я при пазят при евентуални атаки. Към портата водела най-широката градска улица, част от която е открита при разкриването на руините на портата. Тя била покрита с големи сиенитни блокове и е единствената в града с тротоари, чиято широчина била 2,60 м, което я отличавало от другите пътища с обичайните каменни бордюри. Ширината на улицата надхвърляла 13 м, а от двете ѝ страни е имало богато декорирани колонади. При разкриването на обекта се забелязват издълбани коловози в настилката на улицата, което дава основание да се смята, че трафикът през портата с каруци и колесници е бил оживен. Предполага се, че от двете ѝ страни са съществували сгради с изящни портици в коринтски стил, които заедно с портата, са били част от цялостен комплекс. Постройките най-вероятно са изпълнявали функцията на казарми или военна болница.

История
Източната порта на Филипопол е изградена през II век. Първоначално тя е построена като мраморна триумфална арка на главния път към Бизантиум, в чест на посещението на император Адриан. При първото фортифицирането на равнинната част на Филипопол през 172 г., в резултат на опасността от атака на маркоманите, тя остава извън рамките на заграждения. През IV век обаче започва изграждането на нова крепостна стена, от камъни и тухли, а триумфалната арка била вградена в нея. По този начин тя се превръща в новата Източната порта на Филипопол, както е известна и днес. Старият ѝ дизайн с един основен и два допълнителни входа е запазен, но от двете ѝ страни са построени бойни кули, които да я пазят при атаки. Постепенно тя се превърнала в най-важната входно-изходна точка на древния град, а значението ѝ нараства допълнително след 330 г., когато император Константин I прави Бизантиум столица и го прекръства на Константинопол.

Реставрация
През 2009 е създаден и осъществен "Проект за подреждане на каталогизираните архитектурни фрагменти и детайли върху дървени скари" на Източната порта на Филипопол. В сборника "Изследвания в чест на Стефан Бояджиев", 2011, БАН-НАИМ са публикувани резултатите от изследванията на архитектурните останки и хипотетичната графична реконструкция на портика на античната улица на Източната порта.

През 2017 Община Пловдив възлага продължаване на археологическото проучване и идеен проект за анастилоза, консервация, реставрация и експониране. Сформира се полидисциплинарен екип (археолог/архитект/реставратори), който споделя обща методическа реставрационна платформа – на т.нар. "принцип на минималната намеса" – анастилоза и стриктна консервация.

Предстои изготвяне и реализация на технически и работен проект за анастилоза, консервация, реставрация и експониране на археологическия комплекс.

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The Lakota ("friend(s)", spoken and writen "Lakhota" by the Lakota people) are a Native American tribe, also known as the Sioux, which is the abbreviation of Nadou�ssioux ("enemy"), by which a neighbouring tribe, either the Ojibwa or the Ottawa[?], referred to them, or the Dakota. The Lakota after the adoption of the horse were part of the Great Plains Culture[?], living in the northern Great Plains, which centered on the buffalo and the horse. There were 30,000 Lakota in the mid-18th century. The number has increased to 70,000 nowadays.
The Lakota were allied with the Arapaho and the Cheyenne.
They and their allies defeated the 7th U.S. Cavalry under the command of General George Armstrong Custer at the Battle of the Little Big Horn in 1876. They were defeated decisively by the U.S. military fourteen years later, at the Massacre of Wounded Knee.
The U.S. states of North Dakota and South Dakota are named after the Lakota.
The Black Hills are sacred to the Lakota, who object to mining in the area.
The name Sioux was composed by the French, who put two words together. The Algonquin, Nadowe ("snake") and the French "Sioux" ("little"). This term was meant as an insult, but today the Federal Government of the United States has applied this name to represent all of the Lokota people.
The Lakota, have names of their own. The "Santee" received this name from camping for long periods in a place where they collected stone for making knives. The "Yankton" received this name which meant people from the villages of far away. The "Tetonwan" were known as people who lived on the prairie. From these three principal groups, came seven sub-tribes.
The Sioux Nation consists of divisions, each of which may have distinct bands, the larger of which are divided into sub-bands.
Eastern division (the Dakota, the Santee)
Mdewakantonwan
Sisitonwan
Wahpetonwan
Middle division (the Nakota)
Ihanktonwan (Yankton)
Ihanktonwana (Yanktonai)
Western division (the Lakota)
Titonwan (Teton)
notable persons: Crazy Horse, Red Cloud[?], and Billy Mills[?] (Olympics sportsman)
Payabya
Tapisleca
Kiyaksa
Wajaje
Itesica
Oyuhpe
Wagluhe
Sihasapa (Blackfoot Sioux)
Sicangu (French: Brul�)
Upper Sicangu
Lower Sicangu
Miniconjou
Itazipacola (French: Sans Arcs "No Bows")
Oohenonpa (Two-Kettle or Two Boilings)
Some minor divisions:
Dhegiha
Chiwere
Hidatsa
Today, one half of all Enrolled Sioux live off the Reservation.
Federally recognized Sioux Reservations[?] include:
Oglasa (Pine Ridge)
Brule (Rosebud)
Hunkpapa (Standing Rock)
Miniconju (Cheyenne River)
Sans Arc (Cheyenne River)
Two-Kettle (Cheyenne River)
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